Norm: "What is it with postal workers going postal, anyway?"
Cliff: (With a crazed look in his eyes) "Because it never stops. The mail never stops coming! You think you're done, then there's more, and more, and more, and..."
Norm: "Okay Cliff, it's okay, have another beer..."
Quarter-bend to the left is "back", quarter-bend to the right is "forward". To close the browser window, just fold and put in your pocket. Rip the display in half to "view source".
I haven't used gifs in years, mainly just jpgs if I touch anything web-related. So my question is, does every browser out there accept the PNG format? I wouldn't mind doing indexed-color images if I need to (I think this is doable within PNG), but I'm a little naive about PNG on the interweb. And how are file-size comparisons?
If you're consulting and not attached to a company, why does anybody have to know how old you are IRL?
I've noticed that it's not so much my age, but my resume. Things will get better soon, but for now I am using an agency where my primary competitors are a year (or less) out of art school. The hiring managers out there are my equals, and it's a tough game of "do what they ask, and don't piss them off by showing them a better solution". This market is as much psychology and human-relations as it is talent, and these are distinctly different things.
p.s. I'm guessing you're 31 years, 3 months, 23 days old. Am I close?
4. Apply to every ridiculous job on the web, even to those recruiters with fake job descriptions. This could seem like a futile effort with many not even drawing a "hi there, i got you email response". But, again - its one of those exercises that help in keeping a healthy hope alive.
This is the most important thing. I've got jobs off of obscure emails I sent four months ago using this method. It's the shotgun approach, but sometimes, it just works. And who knows, you have nothing to lose by using this technique.
You may have something there. I've been condidering this myself. If not for the mediocre cash, at least for the lively conversations throughout the day...
On another note, I've landed one of my best clients in the past by meeting him at a bar, both of us sitting side by side getting smashed on cheap greyhounds, trying to forget our jobs. We still talk occasionally.
I've ran into this quite a bit lately. I am a 32-year old designer, now competing with 22-year olds for gigs. It is tough, 75% of the companies that I am soliciting want quick, specific work done, and don't require an art director for 75/hour. They'd rather grab a junior designer for 30/hour that doesn't think much, just powers through Photoshop and gets the job done, no questions asked. This is killing me, especially when I see a better solution to the overall problem that we're working on, and I want to offer my advice, but I have to remember that I was hired for 30/hour and I'm not required to think about my temporary boss's probs and how to solve them. Arggh. And I cannot get hired to upper-echelon management right off the bat, so I'm playing this game I hate. I'm lucky to get work, but I keep my mouth shut and take the lower wages for now. Foot in the door, and all that.
I'm pretty sure that corn is more friendly to the soil after harvest (relatively), but both fields would require quite a bit of tender-loving-care to start the next crop. But that is what pig-shit is for, right?
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I think you meant to say that the pro-pot kids didnt know the difference. Mosty people who spout the hemp facts usually know the basics.
>It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting >down trees, but it's a good start. Lets see..hemp has about 4 harvests a year (and is the ideal rotating crop) and trees take a few decades to grow...
Id say its a hell of a good start and finish to any tree vs hemp debate.
Or until you have a 'hacker' type of guy breaking into a remote computer system by typing frantically for 30 seconds and then exclaiming "I'M IN!"
That's exactly how I got into this "slashdot" thing! The two generals nervously smoking and pacing behind me (along with the dashing lead character) really added to the pressure, so I typed quicker and suddenly, I was in!
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I had a bad experience at Hempfest, Seattle this year. Surrounded by a bunch of stoned, chanting kids (a derivative of the hey-ho, hey-ho chant, no less). They were approached by a reasonable guy who asked them bluntly what should be legalized, hemp for industry or THC-marijuana as a controlled substance, and they all shouted "POT, dude! I wanna wear my shirt AND smoke it!" I shook my head and thought that the hemp-legalization lobby has quite an uphill climb yet...
but this is a generalisation.
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Most pro-hemp kids I run into don't understand the difference between legalizing hemp and legalizing THC-marijuana. I'm all for legalizing (and regulating and taxing) both, but I think that hemp has the greater value. If done right, growing copious crops of non-THC hemp could reduce our nasty habit of deforestation (to an extent) and really help out companies like Weyerhaeuser. It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting down trees, but it's a good start.
The paper industries would benefit from the legalization of hemp, while the IRS would benefit from the legalization of marijuana. But it ain't ever gonna happen in our lifetimes.
The sad part is, Jobs made $7000 from Atari for bringing Breakout to completion, and he gave the Woz $350 (who did ALL the work). I think it was his first little back-stabbing move, I'm still not sure when Woz found out about this.
You hit the point right on the head. I guess I was just tossing some fun at the headline, and I pictured some reaction following what I wrote. I thought that somebody out there would "seriously" make a comment like mine, so I tried to do it first in jest.
Linux anywhere in the news is a good thing, as long as it is sensible and drives things forward.
On that same tangient: Will 9 Saturn rockets get us to the moon 9x quicker? Hot damn, sign me up!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! No no, hear me out! If we get 16 of these together, according to my math, we could reach the moon in 129.6 minutes! Take that, NASA!
Okay sorry, I'm going now.
The one thing I liked about Yoda's speech was his throwing out mad pops to the Queen, the one true Queen, Queen Latifa. That rocked.
Otherwise, Gollum owned the stage that night.
I used to work for "Russ and the gang" in Sacto. I'm honestly suprised that they're even on the net, with all the chaos and inter-departmental fighting going on there. It took 6 months and a lot of begging/presentations just to upgrade the art dept. to 2-year old Macs. Kudos to Apple for even trying to enter that hell.
Why are humans soooo interested to keep all the old stuff around?
Because it has historical value. It's a trail of where we've been, that's all. Yes it's all sentimental, but keeping at least one example (and not a warehouse-full of the same samples) allows students to see where we've been, and how we got to where we are now. Even if it's acedemic, learning the incatracies of the C-64 hardware now in 2003 will help somebody follow the path to 64-bit programming in a step-by-step fashion. I still want to pick up a Vic-20 from some pawn shop just so's I can start following what the hell all these slash-dotters are talking about, but I understand the process of evolution. Hopefully this is still applicable.
As the machine ran, the coil would creep towards the magnets.
Doesn't this make the coil useless for any real-world power-generation? I can't see someone coming out to adjust the taps or re-coil the core every six hours. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Fuzzy memory of a Cheers episode:
Norm: "What is it with postal workers going postal, anyway?"
Cliff: (With a crazed look in his eyes) "Because it never stops. The mail never stops coming! You think you're done, then there's more, and more, and more, and..."
Norm: "Okay Cliff, it's okay, have another beer..."
couldn't find the actual verbage on Google.
"the artists get a measly 12 cents for each download"
So that's twelve percent, this actually sounds higher than what they make off of CD sales. What's the big whoop?
HAARRRRRR!!!!! I'm changing my sig to this, wayyy too fucking funny.
Quarter-bend to the left is "back", quarter-bend to the right is "forward". To close the browser window, just fold and put in your pocket. Rip the display in half to "view source".
I haven't used gifs in years, mainly just jpgs if I touch anything web-related. So my question is, does every browser out there accept the PNG format? I wouldn't mind doing indexed-color images if I need to (I think this is doable within PNG), but I'm a little naive about PNG on the interweb. And how are file-size comparisons?
If you're consulting and not attached to a company, why does anybody have to know how old you are IRL?
I've noticed that it's not so much my age, but my resume. Things will get better soon, but for now I am using an agency where my primary competitors are a year (or less) out of art school. The hiring managers out there are my equals, and it's a tough game of "do what they ask, and don't piss them off by showing them a better solution". This market is as much psychology and human-relations as it is talent, and these are distinctly different things.
p.s. I'm guessing you're 31 years, 3 months, 23 days old. Am I close?
4. Apply to every ridiculous job on the web, even to those recruiters with fake job descriptions. This could seem like a futile effort with many not even drawing a "hi there, i got you email response". But, again - its one of those exercises that help in keeping a healthy hope alive.
This is the most important thing. I've got jobs off of obscure emails I sent four months ago using this method. It's the shotgun approach, but sometimes, it just works. And who knows, you have nothing to lose by using this technique.
You may have something there. I've been condidering this myself. If not for the mediocre cash, at least for the lively conversations throughout the day... On another note, I've landed one of my best clients in the past by meeting him at a bar, both of us sitting side by side getting smashed on cheap greyhounds, trying to forget our jobs. We still talk occasionally.
I've ran into this quite a bit lately. I am a 32-year old designer, now competing with 22-year olds for gigs. It is tough, 75% of the companies that I am soliciting want quick, specific work done, and don't require an art director for 75/hour. They'd rather grab a junior designer for 30/hour that doesn't think much, just powers through Photoshop and gets the job done, no questions asked. This is killing me, especially when I see a better solution to the overall problem that we're working on, and I want to offer my advice, but I have to remember that I was hired for 30/hour and I'm not required to think about my temporary boss's probs and how to solve them. Arggh. And I cannot get hired to upper-echelon management right off the bat, so I'm playing this game I hate. I'm lucky to get work, but I keep my mouth shut and take the lower wages for now. Foot in the door, and all that.
I'm pretty sure that corn is more friendly to the soil after harvest (relatively), but both fields would require quite a bit of tender-loving-care to start the next crop. But that is what pig-shit is for, right?
I think you meant to say that the pro-pot kids didnt know the difference. Mosty people who spout the hemp facts usually know the basics.
>It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting >down trees, but it's a good start.
Lets see..hemp has about 4 harvests a year (and is the ideal rotating crop) and trees take a few decades to grow... Id say its a hell of a good start and finish to any tree vs hemp debate.
bingo. what the anon zeke said.
Or until you have a 'hacker' type of guy breaking into a remote computer system by typing frantically for 30 seconds and then exclaiming "I'M IN!"
That's exactly how I got into this "slashdot" thing! The two generals nervously smoking and pacing behind me (along with the dashing lead character) really added to the pressure, so I typed quicker and suddenly, I was in!
I had a bad experience at Hempfest, Seattle this year. Surrounded by a bunch of stoned, chanting kids (a derivative of the hey-ho, hey-ho chant, no less). They were approached by a reasonable guy who asked them bluntly what should be legalized, hemp for industry or THC-marijuana as a controlled substance, and they all shouted "POT, dude! I wanna wear my shirt AND smoke it!" I shook my head and thought that the hemp-legalization lobby has quite an uphill climb yet...
but this is a generalisation.
Most pro-hemp kids I run into don't understand the difference between legalizing hemp and legalizing THC-marijuana. I'm all for legalizing (and regulating and taxing) both, but I think that hemp has the greater value. If done right, growing copious crops of non-THC hemp could reduce our nasty habit of deforestation (to an extent) and really help out companies like Weyerhaeuser. It's not the end-all-be-all solution to cutting down trees, but it's a good start.
The paper industries would benefit from the legalization of hemp, while the IRS would benefit from the legalization of marijuana. But it ain't ever gonna happen in our lifetimes.
Don't you mean Job's Breakout? ;)
The sad part is, Jobs made $7000 from Atari for bringing Breakout to completion, and he gave the Woz $350 (who did ALL the work). I think it was his first little back-stabbing move, I'm still not sure when Woz found out about this.
You hit the point right on the head. I guess I was just tossing some fun at the headline, and I pictured some reaction following what I wrote. I thought that somebody out there would "seriously" make a comment like mine, so I tried to do it first in jest.
Linux anywhere in the news is a good thing, as long as it is sensible and drives things forward.
On that same tangient: Will 9 Saturn rockets get us to the moon 9x quicker? Hot damn, sign me up!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! No no, hear me out! If we get 16 of these together, according to my math, we could reach the moon in 129.6 minutes! Take that, NASA! Okay sorry, I'm going now.
> which allows a remote site to read any file on the > client machine
That's why I keep my any file hidden away, accessible only by pressing the any key.
The one thing I liked about Yoda's speech was his throwing out mad pops to the Queen, the one true Queen, Queen Latifa. That rocked.
Otherwise, Gollum owned the stage that night.
I used to work for "Russ and the gang" in Sacto. I'm honestly suprised that they're even on the net, with all the chaos and inter-departmental fighting going on there. It took 6 months and a lot of begging/presentations just to upgrade the art dept. to 2-year old Macs. Kudos to Apple for even trying to enter that hell.
Okay I know it's a stretch from the Vic-20 to 64-bit, but you get my point. Start from A, end up at Z through process learning.
Why are humans soooo interested to keep all the old stuff around?
Because it has historical value. It's a trail of where we've been, that's all. Yes it's all sentimental, but keeping at least one example (and not a warehouse-full of the same samples) allows students to see where we've been, and how we got to where we are now. Even if it's acedemic, learning the incatracies of the C-64 hardware now in 2003 will help somebody follow the path to 64-bit programming in a step-by-step fashion. I still want to pick up a Vic-20 from some pawn shop just so's I can start following what the hell all these slash-dotters are talking about, but I understand the process of evolution. Hopefully this is still applicable.
As the machine ran, the coil would creep towards the magnets.
Doesn't this make the coil useless for any real-world power-generation? I can't see someone coming out to adjust the taps or re-coil the core every six hours. Correct me if I'm wrong.
How much will this help out apps like PhotoShop and AfterEffects, once they are re-compiled for the architecture?
I've heard conflicting answers, one is that 64-bit will really shine with 3D apps but do little to help the performance of 2D number-crunching.
Does this mean we'll see only nominal gains with Adobe's apps? Someone enlighten me.
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yep I do that a lot myself.